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[Captivate General] harryh813:
Thanks for the help guys.

Trusello, I'll keep that in mind on the Q&A thread.

MikeyMike, I'm a relative newbie to android and just got into modding my phone. I'm also new to the forum here and the bulk of information can be overwhelming. I'm still learning my way around to forum so please be patient with a new android user.

Thanks again for all your help.
[Captivate General] Miami_Son:
In the future, most of the ROMs in here have a dedicated sticky in the Q&A subforum where questions like this should go.
[General Questions and Answers] mirceani:
I have a Captivate running Froyo

I click (and press longer) the HOME button, which takes me to the Task Manager.

I click "Active Applications" and I see the list of running apps

I click "End All"

Than I click on RAM management tab, click the two buttons Level 1 and Level 2, than I press "Clear memory"

I get a message which tells me that "9 applications have been closed"

Question:

How can I determine which are those 9 applications running in the background, without my knowledge ? They are clearly eating up my battery life.

Thank you:o
[General Questions and Answers] Dirk:
They are not 'eating up' your battery life. They are sitting idle @ 0% CPU utilisation until they are needed again.

It has been stated time after time that Task Killers etc aren't necessary AT ALL. Android manages itself rather nicely thank you, until you start messing with it.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] melodicjunkie:
So... I seen baconbits shortly after rooting and flashing, I installed baconbits, phone booted, than right from start up I get forceclose on every app and process... than I tried to do a backup, I got an error on cwm so than I wiped data and tried to reflash fresh and start over, that would not work. So I recovered the stock froyo and fixed cwm than I flashed fire and ice cm7 rom.. everything has been fine since I fixed it.. it was still frustrating tho..

But when ever I go to my boot loader before recovery, I get this green font that says blah blah blah not found (its trying to locate files to install that stock froyo, but after it doesn't locate the file I'm free to access recovery or do whatever.. is there a way to delete that "cannot find" ****, it takes about 20 seconds from holding power and volume down to give me control.. that's why I want it gone its annoying.. even if I can't fix it, I guess its not a major setback..
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hispeedworm:
thats internal feature of Hboot... it looks for pc10img.zip on sd card.... not at all an error....

and it can be useful in a situation where you mess up your recovery and rom ... you would be able to save your phone via that ....

also its used to go back to stock rom and unroot when needed
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] KCRic:
+1 for hispeedword. Best possible answer right there - that's exactly what's going on. Use ROM Manager to reboot straight to recovery from now on and it will skip HBOOT so you don't have to wait through all of that. CM and most other roms also allow that option when you hold down the power button.

Now, you said "shortly after rooting and flashing" - what exactly did you flash? You do know baconbits is ONLY meant to be used with the stock rom right? The exact one that you rooted and that came on your phone. If you flash ANY other rom - even a 'stock rooted rom' then you run into tons of errors when flashing baconbits.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TheMod'sPolice:
Dont flash baconbits, its not needed
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] melodicjunkie:
Yeah I was being stupid, I didn't even know at the time when my phone messed up that it was from me flashing baconbits...until I did a back up, than flashed a different rom and reflashed baconbits, lmao..

so your saying to use baconbits if you rooted but didn't flash custom roms, than it works fine?

I'm thinking of switching to a sense rom, I don't even know why.. what are the pros/cons of sense? Thanks.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ohshootrawr:
Assuming you've already answered your question up there, sense roms usually consume more battery life because of the plethora of constantly active widgets. However, if you're VERY social or buisiness, Id recommend it. The battery drain only cuts down on a few hours, depending on your usage, cpu governers and radio, and for that, you get a lot of functionality from the rom. Plus the new elegant blues ported theme for sense roms is just gorgeous. I also like the whole manual link to facebook in the contacts. Still hoping for a port for that xP try it out.
[HTC Inspire 4G] tribalartgod:
Si I just made the switch from T-Mobile to AT&T. Still waiting on my phone to get here, so still "technically" a T-Mo user, for now...

Basically, just wanted to say hi to all, and I'm excited to get started on this new phone. :-)

Once I'm rooted and backups made, here's what you can expect from me:

*Support on fixing certain "bugs" or glitches here and there.

*Boot Animations.

*Custom Splash Screens

*Custom made task bar icons.

Obviously, I have to learn the basic setup of this phone first, once I get it.. Just throwin my name in the hat for now. ;-) Talk to some of you soon!
[HTC Inspire 4G] mudknot2005:
Welcome ;). Sounds promising. Maybe you will be the one to find out where the splash screen actually is haha. Instead of having to flash it through adb.
[HTC Inspire 4G] tribalartgod:
Granted, I DO NOT have this phone as of yet, so this is pure speculation right now..

But generally the splash image is housed on it's own partition, or so I thought. Making "fastboot" the easiest and fastest way that I know of to change this image.

Now, I have seen where there is not a splash partition, and instead the splash image is housed in the boot image. Now...If this is the case with this phone, then to get on the right path you "should be able" to run the following command through "ADB SHELL", to find out what block you need to be on.

cat /proc/mtd

If this command works on this phone, it should give you a list of the MTD partitions and what is on them.

Again, at this current moment, I am only speaking of experience with other phones, as I do not have this phone yet.
[HTC Inspire 4G] homeslice976:
I just ran this command and it returned the following:

#cat /proc/mtd
cat /proc/mtd
dev: size erasesize name
#

No idea what this means, just saw you didn't have the device yet so I thought I'd try it for you.
[HTC Inspire 4G] tribalartgod:
Unfortunately, there are many thing that can cause this read out. The 2 most likely causes are: 1, Command was not run with root permissions. Or 2, This device does not use this style partitions.

At any rate, on my part this is speculation. Once I actually have the device (in 5 days or so. Dam**t) ...Then I can start snooping around and find out stuff. So until then, no more speculation from me. :-) ...Thanks for running that command btw.
[HTC Inspire 4G] homeslice976:
Probably the second. I certainly have root (and I thought the # indicated that I was in adb shell as su?). At any rate, I just ran it again and made sure to run "su" first, and I got the same thing
[HTC Inspire 4G] tribalartgod:
Blah. Crap. It's all good though. This phone is still in it's infancy as of right now. Things will take off VERY quickly I'm sure. And I'm not afraid to break my phone, so... haha
[HTC Inspire 4G] homeslice976:
Can't wait til your phone arrives! I'm sure you're looking forward to it more than the rest of us though...
[Droid X General] BlueLineEnforcer:
I finally left WM after many years and went to the dark side. I have a Droid X and friends have said just the tethering capability makes rooting my phone worth it. I'm on Verizon and it has a an app called 3G Mobile Hotspot which I use to connect my laptop to, or my kids iPod touches while I'm in the car. Are there any speed advantages or other reasons why USB tethering is better? I understand USB will not drain the battery, but other than that, any advantages? It is my understanding that I can also do wi-fi tethering, what is the difference between that and a wi-fi hotspot?

Thanks in advance for your help!
[Droid X General] zanix:
Yes, USB tethering uses less battery since you are not running the wifi radio in the phone

As for speed, I don't think there is a difference, usb and wifi speeds are much faster than 3g speeds.

Wifi tethering and hotspot are essentially the same, just different names.

Most of the wifi tethering apps on the market use ad-hoc mode, some wifi devices wont connect in this mode, I think the ipad, ipod and psp do not connect in this mode.

The 3g hotspot app that comes with the phone is nice since it uses wifi infrastructure mode, which is more compatible with wifi devices. Too bad it's an additional $20/month (unless you know the workaround!)

I hear that "Wifi Tether" on the market has support for this mode, but I have never been able to get it to work.
[Droid X General] infazzdar:
WiFi Tether for Root Users is an excellent application. It uses infrastructure instead of ad-hoc, so a wider range if devices can connect to it. And not having to pay an extra $20 a month is a nice advantage. Rooting is so worth it ^_^

Beamed from my DroidX
[Droid X General] zanix:
Nice, I will have to try it again sometime
[Droid X General] BlueLineEnforcer:
Thanks!

Makes perfect sense and answers the question on why I could get my kids iPod touches to connect to the hotspot on my HTC Touch Pro 2, but not my Droid X. Thanks for your help!:D
[Windows Mobile Software Development] MobileMini:
I see many discussions about people wanting a customized version of a particular application for the HVGA resolution (e.g. HD Mini). Many developers still think there is no way of emulating the HVGA resolution. I found a tutorial explaining how to set up the emulator for HVGA resolution, this is a really simple task. Furthermore this tutorial can also be used for other custom resolutions.

I hope developers will take some extra time to make their applications also HVGA compatible, I think the community would really appreciate that!

http://techwireless.blogspot.com/2010/05/how-to-emulate-htc-hd-mini-in-visual.html

More about the subject:

http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Fo...v/thread/7c7a49c3-5080-44e4-8c6b-32f0b3c8c87d
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] knowledge561:
I was wondering if anyone could possibly theme the apps by adding real polished buttons and not the crappy transparent ones. Like a polished black dpad and a red and blue A and B button. Thanks in advanced.

Sent from Darth Stewies' Evolution aboard the Death Star!
[Streak 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mid_life_crisis:
Search doesn't work, period, I tried.

My phone is brand new U.S. model with 1.6 installed.

I'm still experimenting.

I imported one album in MP3 format. It was fine on the computer, but when I open it on the phone, it has lost the song sequence. They appear to be randomly arranged.

I'm going to have to rip my entire CD collection (that is going to be quite a project) so I am open to changing rippers to any lossless one that works well with the Streak if someone has a suggestion.

Thanks
[Streak 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Radimus:
WinAMP for PC and Streak
[Atrix 4G General] rpolansky:
I am having a password issue. It is when I am using the webtop application and am using the Firefox Browser Citrix Xen plugin to access office software. One piece of software won't accept the password (strong with letter/symbols/numbers) even though it is correct. This is when I use the mouse/keyboard on the phone. I tried both swype and other and played with the setting to no avail. Other software no problem.

Has anyone else experienced any kind of password problems using the phone and have any tips to fix??

Thanks!
[Windows Phone 7 General] noodles222:
Hi all,

I would like to ask those lucky ones who have NoDo update if the lockscreen bug was fixed.

1. set automatic brightness adjustmen OFF

2. Set Medium brightness level

3. Lock the phone by presing the power button

4. Unlock the phone.

Phone normally flicks your home screen (for 1 seconds) or any other screen you used at last.

Thanks
[Windows Phone 7 General] Perlnx:
I already try with your methods.

I confirm that problem was still exist.

I use HD7 with Nodo 7.0.7389 by RUU flash.
[Windows Phone 7 General] noodles222:
Thanks, somehow i am not surprised its still there.. It was always about copy and paste!!!
[Windows Phone 7 General] slighmd:
and also connecting to hidden wifi networks and watching videos using bluetooth headsets re audio streaming to the headset. also, the need to flip the device to portrait mode when surfing just to change websites or to access the bookmarks menu. well i'm sure it might, just might, be fixed by the mango update when it comes out by the end of the year. oh wait, it's M$, so well i guess that's early 2012
[Windows Phone 7 General] matrixcs:
i guess it is all said here..

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsphone/en-us/howto/wp7/basics/update-history.aspx

that is the NoDo update details..
[Windows Phone 7 General] FTC:
...following your points 1 to 4, I can't see any flickering on my Mozart...
[Windows Phone 7 General] noodles222:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=isi5aKDjnws

it should show for a second your last used screen.
[Windows Phone 7 General] webwalk®:
well i got some major improvments on my mozarts cam, im happy for now :)
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] doitall76:
I moved to the Thunderbolt from the OG Droid. One thing that I loved about the Droid, as I assume on most android phones, is that when I would tap on a phone number in an email or on a website, it would bring up the dialer and make the call. Unfortunately, I haven't been able to get this to work on the Thunderbolt, whether it is a tap or a long press.

Is this the same for everyone? Is there anything that can be done?

Doitall76
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ksizzle9:
I think it will bring up the number, just switch to your phone after u click it and it should b up on the dialer.
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rednoved:
What browser are you using?
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TNS201:
Sometimes it wont recognize a phone number because of the format its in I believe.
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fronc:
I've noticed that if i search for a place in the browser (not maps) and the search results come up with a phone number (a blue button on the page), if I click the phone number it will load up my dialer.... but without the number.

Once again, I have to say I don't think anyone actually tests the software in a real-world scenario... but maybe its just my frustrations getting the best of me. (Relax, though. I still love the phone..)
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] doitall76:
I am using the default HTC browser, but this occurs in the mail and gmail programs as well.

With my Droid, if there was a string of 10 numbers in the header "subject" area of the message, I could just click it and it would dial.

My office voice mails come through my email, this is where it comes into play and I am missing that functionality. Now I have to memorize the number or write it down to go to the dialer and manually dial it. It's just not as fluid as it was.

Doitall76
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SoDev:
This didn't seem right to my experience, so I go google lowes phone number in the stock browser pick first result. It was not blue boxed, when I clicked on it I get the option to COPY|CALL|SMS|SAVE TO (contacts)

So I figure I maybe got lucky... I scroll down until I see a number in one of the replies in the comments section... same thing, no issue.

I have also gotten the blue box in the past, don't know what the special circumstance is.

Edit - Just tried it on another site and one came up blue boxed like and one didn't recognize a phone number as a phone number on a different section of the page. Interesting.
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] doitall76:
I just had lunch with someone who moved from a Motorola Cliq, to an HTC Shift, and she has the same issue. I don't know if it is that Motorola's phone are just working a little better in this arena, or if there is something wrong with these two HTC phone models.
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SoDev:
This would be easier to deal with (not that it bothers me much) if there was just an easy way to past a copied phone number in the dialer. Am I missing something?
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] doitall76:
I agree totally, I would be willing to copy and paste all day. But, it doesn't give me the option to copy it.
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zorak15:
I'm running gingerblur 7.2 with the hulu flash files added. Hulu plays video via Dolphin HD like a champ but I can't hear anything at all. Has anyone else encountered/solved this problem?
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jiggytom:
try installing the adobe flash 10.2 off the market and then copying the patched files over again (found in theme forum).
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zorak15:
You, sir, are truly helpful! Fixed! +1 thanks
[Xoom Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] norsairius:
Hey all,

I have a few questions about the Xoom since I'm thinking about getting one (and yes, I am comparing it to the iPad 2).

First off, we've all seen Anandtech's graphical benchmarks of the Xoom. I'm taking those with a grain of salt though because from what I've seen from the Xoom when I've tried it at Best Buy, the Xoom seems to perform perfectly fine.

That said, do you think the Xoom's bottleneck in terms of graphical performance is more on the software end? Or is it more because of the hardware? Right now, I see myself doubting the Tegra 2.

Next, how well does the HDMI video output work? Has anyone tried it directly from the tablet? Or do you actually need the dock (I've read this somewhere) to use the HDMI video output? I assume it's easy to do, right?

I know this has been discussed before, but while I'm here asking questions, I figured I might as well: how's the office productivity with the Xoom? I won't necessarily need apps to edit Word/Excel/Powerpoint documents (though it'd be nice), but to at least view them and perhaps display them via the HDMI out could be very useful for me at work.

Lastly, how have your experiences with the video chat been so far? With Fring (I would like to be able to do cross-platform video chat, specifically with iOS devices since I have friends/family who use them)? Google Chat?

That's all I've got for now. Thanks!
[Xoom Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lexian:
I have had the xoom for almost a month. I think the performance is great, but I have no I pad experience other then playing with them in the verizon store.

I like this long battery life, the cameras have been fun though the app support is still lacking. I still can't video skype etc. But I am biased towards android and will wait for the market to catch up.

I have purchased a micro hdmi cable to regular hdmi from microcenter and it works fine, I think it defaulted to 720p. But everything shows up on the screen except for the bottom menu bar. Like the bottom 10 pixels or something.
[Xoom Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] svghost:
This is an uneducated guess compared to some of the realllllllllllllly smart people on xda but i think that if you can play games like Samurai II: Vengance in full screen full res the hardware schould have no trouble playing back a video file at that resolution (it doesnt have all that GPU work to do!). So i personally think the issue is software.
[Xoom Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] khov07:
1. I'm not an expert in this area, but my time with the Xoom indicates that it's a software issue. There are several games available in the market that look absolutely great on the Xoom, and run very smooth without any hiccups. Emulation, which is all done in software, tends to be a good stress-test for hardware. You should see StarFox 64 on N64oid, it's smooth as butter. I have no doubt the software will catch up and in time show off this hardware platform - don't forget there are several tablets being released with very similar specs running Honeycomb.

2. HDMI output works great, it's a full mirror. Just the other day, I was waiting in a building lobby that had a huge Panasonic HDTV hanging on the wall, but there was some issue with the cable TV service. So I took out the Xoom, plugged in the HDMI cable, and fired up some episodes of The Office. Employees walking by were surprised and said "it's about time they got that thing fixed!", not knowing my Xoom was providing the content. Gotta admit, that felt pretty cool.

3. There are plenty of office productivity apps for Android, like Documents To Go. Some are free, and have a paid version that allows you to edit documents as well. As I said before, the Xoom allows for full mirroring via HDMI-out, so this should work for you. I don't to a whole lot of Office-document editing, mostly viewing of Excel, Word, or PDF attachments, which works just fine on the Xoom.

4. I don't use Fring anymore, ever since Skype blocked them, so I migrated to Tango on my EVO, and it works just as well on the Xoom. I've made video calls over 3G on the Xoom, and it works as expected. Really looking forward to a full Skype client. I haven't tried GChat yet.

Hope this helps. Just remember that the Apple vs Google mentality is in stark contrast: Google's stuff is always in development, so the software often needs time to catch up to the hardware, whereas Apple's stuff is ready to go right out of the box. Is Honeycomb incomplete? I'd say yes, but it's already off to a good start.
[Xoom Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] norsairius:
Thanks for the feedback, everyone!

Now, do you all think the Xoom may become a "developer device" similar to what the Nexus One/S are since the Xoom runs stock Honeycomb? Do you foresee any issues with installing any future updates that come straight from Google since the hardware runs the stock OS just fine?

Also, have any of you tried emulators like SNESoid on the Xoom yet?
[Xoom Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] futuregerald:
It already is the developer device for honey comb, it's what Google used to show off honeycomb first and it's what Google gave devs early on and gave away at the game developers conferences a couple weeks ago for devs to make games on. it's what nvidia uses to show off demos and games.
[Xoom Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] norsairius:
Gotcha, well, that certainly increases the longevity of the device!

It would seem then that in my iPad2 vs. Xoom comparison going on in my head, the Xoom is edging ahead.

I'm not a particular fanboy of either Apple/iOS or Google/Android, so this comparison has been tough for me.

So what I've concluded so far then is that the iPad is certainly the more refined and mature product now, but the Xoom is easily more versatile. I have no doubts that the Xoom, with updates, will easily be as good, if not better than the iPad.

And especially given the fact that the Xoom will be able to use updates directly from Google when they come out, the device should have a relatively long and useful life (unless I'm misinterpreting what people are saying around here).
[Xoom Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] babblin5:
Nope, you hit the nail on the head. the Xoom will have a long and fruitful life from everything I can tell.

I remember when the Macintosh had very few software options, while PCs had EVERYTHING. I see it as the same kind of situation now when comparing the Xoom to the iPad 2. I'm also predicting the same level of success for Honeycomb tablets... just a matter of time!

XoomTech.net
[Thunderbolt Accessories] machostallion:
Anyone seen one for the tbolt. I really got hooked on the one that came with the N1.
[Thunderbolt Accessories] bmcclure937:
I like my N1 neoprene sleeve as well. It was much easier for me to slide the device in and out of a neoprene than to pull a silicone-covered device out of my pocket!

The silicone cases tend to grab your pocket material and can be harder to slide out.
[Thunderbolt Accessories] Aarron.Hulswitt:
I agree the silicone cases stick to the material of jean pockets. Also it kinda sucks its a pain to get the phone in the car dock with a case on it.. pretty sure I'm done with the case